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Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

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This, though a word of general import as referring to nations, or the persons of particular kingdoms, yet in respect to the Lord's people, hath a special designation. The redeemed of Christ are called a peculiar people, (1 Peter 2:9) —a "people that dwell alone, and are not reckoned among the nations." (Numbers 23:9) Hence God the Father, speaking of them to his dear Son, saith,"Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power." (Psalms 110:1-7) And elsewhere the Lord saith, "Thou art an holy people to the Lord thy God; the Lord, thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." (Deuteronomy 7:6) And it is wonderful to observe how distinguishing the grace of God is manifested towards them. They are given of the Father to the Son, and set apart in the counsel and purpose of God from all eternity; they are the object of Jesus's love before all worlds; and they are brought; under the anointings of God the Holy Ghost, with pepeculiar marks of his love during the whole of their eventful pilgrimage-state, from the first dawnings of grace unto the fulness of glory. Such are the characters of the redeemed of the Lord. "Oh! bless, our God, ye people, and make the voice -of his praise to be heard." (Psalms 66:8)

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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'People'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​pmd/​p/people.html. London. 1828.
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